December 1, 2022 • 12 mins
Today, we want to share a preview of another Shakespeare podcast we think you will enjoy, Play On Podcasts, which reimagines Shakespeare's timeless tales into epic audio adventures. Each episode explores plays from Macbeth to A Midsummer Night's Dream, created specifically for the podcast form by some of America's most exciting playwrights, directors, and composers and performed by stage and screen's best. This clip is from the fifth episode, In the Devil's Other Name, of their Macbeth series. In it, Edward Torres directs a Latinx cast into the dark corners of the human psyche through Migdalia Cruz's rendering of Macbeth. It features drag superstars Manila Luzon, Monét X-Change, and Ms. Peppermint as The Witches, with sound design and original composition by David Molina.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. Hey, it's Barry. We'll be back with our regularly
scheduled episode of Where There's a Will next week, but
in the meantime, we wanted to bring you a preview
of another podcast we like and think you will too.
If you're enjoying hearing about the surprising places Shakespeare shows
up beyond the theater, then you should check out the
play On podcast. Play On features epic audio adventures that
(00:39):
reimagine Shakespeare's timeless tales, featuring original music, composition, and the
voices of award winning actors. Episodes explore plays from Macbeth
to A Midsummer Night's Dream. Play On is created specifically
for the podcast form by some of America's most exciting playwrights, directors,
and composers, and performed by stage and screens best. The
(01:00):
preview of Macbeth You're About to Hear is probably the
best representation of all that the play On podcasts are
phenomenal sound design, amazing original music, outstanding performances, and it
features the stars of RuPaul's Drag Race, Manila Luzon, Monet Exchange,
and Miss Peppermint, along with Armando Riesco as Macbeth. Where
There's a Will is about Shakespeare outside the theater, and
(01:23):
play On invites you inside to experience it in a
way that will excite and surprise you, letting you hear
Shakespeare like you've never heard before. I hope you enjoy
this preview. If you do, you can find play On
wherever you get podcasts. Who Prays to Whomean people? Heath
(01:48):
Wing is fool. We see Macbeth Harry's secrets in his fans. Here,
Siskin and Stroke share his pains to time to time,
(02:09):
double doubles toil and trouble, fire burning cauldron bubble, double
double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble round
about the cauldring gough in the Poison entra throw toad
that under cold stone tasting knights has thirty one losing
venom sleeping got boiled the first in the Charmid Pot,
(02:33):
double doubles toil and trouble, fire burning cauldron bubble, double
double hoil and trouble fire burning hauldron bubble, Villae of
a forest snake in the cauldron boiling fake eye of Newton,
toe of frog, will of back, and tone of dogs, hadders,
broken lineworm sting lizards, legs and out on the swing
(02:55):
for a charm of powerful trouble like a hell rock
boiling bubble, double double toil and trouble fire burning cauldron bubble,
double double toil and trouble fire burning haudrin, bubble piled dragon,
tooth of wolf, which is mummy car and golf of
the glutted folksy shocked fruits of her luck again, the
(03:16):
dark liver of blasphemer tooth, gall of coat, and flips
of view slithered in the moon's eclips heath and snowse
and lie his lips, finger of bread, strangled maide ditched,
lithered by a shade. Make the gruel thick with gore,
add their two a tiger's organ for the ingredients of
our card, the double toil and trouble fire burning hauldryubble,
(03:42):
double double toil and trouble fire burning aldry bubble cool
it without babblem's blood. Then the charm is furb and good.
Oh well done. I commend your pains, and everyone shall
(04:03):
share in the games and nah about the cauldron, scene
ills and fairies in a ring and chanting all that
you put in sisters ever around the sun. I could
(04:30):
want to smell, to sound the story of which she
glory stun by fame all so cry come make nights
(05:11):
who give him the crowd by time I keep time.
It is home, and this shine me love from this tram,
this shine here to shine, making me shine. O't talking
(05:40):
till he screaming. Then have a short cream the tea
until he wusy time shine who you all that God,
(06:22):
the one with the wand make screw up and say
(06:54):
when we're sisters, grand hart A black spirit covers me,
show him all and he'll soon for by the pricking
of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes open locks.
(07:17):
Whoever knocks? Oh, no, you secret black and midnight tags.
What did you do a deed? I entreat you to
use all you profess, howe'er you come to know it?
Answer me. Though you untie the winds and let them
(07:38):
fight against the churches. Though the foamy waves confound and
swallow up all ships that sail. Though new corn you crush,
and trees blow down, and castles topple on their keeper's heads.
Though palaces and pyramids do bend their heads to their foundations.
Though the treasure of nature's life sources tumble so completely
(08:00):
as to sicken destruction. Answer me all of what I
ask you speak, demand will answer. Say if thou'st rather
hear it from our mouths or from our master calum,
Let me see him poor in sou's blood that have
eaten her nine piglets, torn flesh taken from the murder's gallos,
(08:23):
throw into the flame. Come high or low thyself and
duty death show feel me low, unknown power, he knows
thy thought. Hear his speech, But say thou not Beth, Beth, Beth,
(08:43):
beware the death, Beware that fade and wife dismiss me enough,
But here thou art for thy good, caution, thanks thou'st
guess my fear, all right, But one word, he will
not be commanded. He is another more potent than the
first Macbeth. Macbeth, Macbeth had I three ears, i'd hear
(09:07):
thee be bloody, bold and rest laugh to swarn the
power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
Then live McDuff. What need I fear of thee. But
yet I'll make assurance, double shure, and make a bond
with fate. He shall not live, so I may tell
pale hearted fear it lies and sleep in spite of thunder?
(09:31):
What is this that rises like the offspring of a
king and wears upon his baby brow the round gold
crown of sovereignty? Listen, but not do it be lion
meddled crowd, and take no care who chafes, who frets,
or where conspirers are. Matbeth shall not defeat it bee
(09:52):
until great Burnham Wood to high Duncanane Hill shall rise
against him that will never be Who can enlist the forest,
bit the tree, unfixes, earth bound root, sweet omens, god,
rebellious dead rise, Never till the wood of Burnham rise
(10:15):
and our high place to Macbeth shall live life's natural course,
lose his breath to time and mortal custom. Yet my
heart throbs to know one thing. Tell me if your
art can tell so much, shall Banquo's offspring ever rain
in this kingdom? Seek to know no more? I will
(10:38):
be satisfied. Deny me this and an eternal curse fall
on you. Let me know why seeks the cauldron? What
noise is this? Here? Yours? Shin show his eyes and
breathe his heart come like shadows, so departs he hates king? There,
(11:01):
your friend, why stan't he at the end, I will
still stop. Thou are two like the spirits of fan
quote down like around us, sermine eyeballs and thy hair.
Another gold bound browse so like the first. A third
(11:25):
is like the former, fills the hags. Why do you
show me this? A fourth burnt eyes will the line
stretched out to the crack of doom. Another yet a
seventh th see no more. And yet the eighth appears,
who holds a glass which shows me many more. And
so my seat carries Scotland's orbs and the scepters of whales.
(11:46):
Horrible sight. Now I seized this true, for the blood
blackened Banquot smiles at me and points at them as
his What is this so? Either? Oh this is so?
But why stands my Beth? That's amazingly, Come sisters, here
(12:09):
we have his sprites and show the best of our lies.
I'll cham be air to give a sound while you
perform your frantic ground, that this great king may kindly
say our duties gave him welcome pains.
Pushkin. Hey, it's Barry. We'll be back with our regularly
scheduled episode of Where There's a Will next week, but
in the meantime, we wanted to bring you a preview
of another podcast we like and think you will too.
If you're enjoying hearing about the surprising places Shakespeare shows
up beyond the theater, then you should check out the
play On podcast. Play On features epic audio adventures that
(00:39):
reimagine Shakespeare's timeless tales, featuring original music, composition, and the
voices of award winning actors. Episodes explore plays from Macbeth
to A Midsummer Night's Dream. Play On is created specifically
for the podcast form by some of America's most exciting playwrights, directors,
and composers, and performed by stage and screens best. The
(01:00):
preview of Macbeth You're About to Hear is probably the
best representation of all that the play On podcasts are
phenomenal sound design, amazing original music, outstanding performances, and it
features the stars of RuPaul's Drag Race, Manila Luzon, Monet Exchange,
and Miss Peppermint, along with Armando Riesco as Macbeth. Where
There's a Will is about Shakespeare outside the theater, and
(01:23):
play On invites you inside to experience it in a
way that will excite and surprise you, letting you hear
Shakespeare like you've never heard before. I hope you enjoy
this preview. If you do, you can find play On
wherever you get podcasts. Who Prays to Whomean people? Heath
(01:48):
Wing is fool. We see Macbeth Harry's secrets in his fans. Here,
Siskin and Stroke share his pains to time to time,
(02:09):
double doubles toil and trouble, fire burning cauldron bubble, double
double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble round
about the cauldring gough in the Poison entra throw toad
that under cold stone tasting knights has thirty one losing
venom sleeping got boiled the first in the Charmid Pot,
(02:33):
double doubles toil and trouble, fire burning cauldron bubble, double
double hoil and trouble fire burning hauldron bubble, Villae of
a forest snake in the cauldron boiling fake eye of Newton,
toe of frog, will of back, and tone of dogs, hadders,
broken lineworm sting lizards, legs and out on the swing
(02:55):
for a charm of powerful trouble like a hell rock
boiling bubble, double double toil and trouble fire burning cauldron bubble,
double double toil and trouble fire burning haudrin, bubble piled dragon,
tooth of wolf, which is mummy car and golf of
the glutted folksy shocked fruits of her luck again, the
(03:16):
dark liver of blasphemer tooth, gall of coat, and flips
of view slithered in the moon's eclips heath and snowse
and lie his lips, finger of bread, strangled maide ditched,
lithered by a shade. Make the gruel thick with gore,
add their two a tiger's organ for the ingredients of
our card, the double toil and trouble fire burning hauldryubble,
(03:42):
double double toil and trouble fire burning aldry bubble cool
it without babblem's blood. Then the charm is furb and good.
Oh well done. I commend your pains, and everyone shall
(04:03):
share in the games and nah about the cauldron, scene
ills and fairies in a ring and chanting all that
you put in sisters ever around the sun. I could
(04:30):
want to smell, to sound the story of which she
glory stun by fame all so cry come make nights
(05:11):
who give him the crowd by time I keep time.
It is home, and this shine me love from this tram,
this shine here to shine, making me shine. O't talking
(05:40):
till he screaming. Then have a short cream the tea
until he wusy time shine who you all that God,
(06:22):
the one with the wand make screw up and say
(06:54):
when we're sisters, grand hart A black spirit covers me,
show him all and he'll soon for by the pricking
of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes open locks.
(07:17):
Whoever knocks? Oh, no, you secret black and midnight tags.
What did you do a deed? I entreat you to
use all you profess, howe'er you come to know it?
Answer me. Though you untie the winds and let them
(07:38):
fight against the churches. Though the foamy waves confound and
swallow up all ships that sail. Though new corn you crush,
and trees blow down, and castles topple on their keeper's heads.
Though palaces and pyramids do bend their heads to their foundations.
Though the treasure of nature's life sources tumble so completely
(08:00):
as to sicken destruction. Answer me all of what I
ask you speak, demand will answer. Say if thou'st rather
hear it from our mouths or from our master calum,
Let me see him poor in sou's blood that have
eaten her nine piglets, torn flesh taken from the murder's gallos,
(08:23):
throw into the flame. Come high or low thyself and
duty death show feel me low, unknown power, he knows
thy thought. Hear his speech, But say thou not Beth, Beth, Beth,
(08:43):
beware the death, Beware that fade and wife dismiss me enough,
But here thou art for thy good, caution, thanks thou'st
guess my fear, all right, But one word, he will
not be commanded. He is another more potent than the
first Macbeth. Macbeth, Macbeth had I three ears, i'd hear
(09:07):
thee be bloody, bold and rest laugh to swarn the
power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
Then live McDuff. What need I fear of thee. But
yet I'll make assurance, double shure, and make a bond
with fate. He shall not live, so I may tell
pale hearted fear it lies and sleep in spite of thunder?
(09:31):
What is this that rises like the offspring of a
king and wears upon his baby brow the round gold
crown of sovereignty? Listen, but not do it be lion
meddled crowd, and take no care who chafes, who frets,
or where conspirers are. Matbeth shall not defeat it bee
(09:52):
until great Burnham Wood to high Duncanane Hill shall rise
against him that will never be Who can enlist the forest,
bit the tree, unfixes, earth bound root, sweet omens, god,
rebellious dead rise, Never till the wood of Burnham rise
(10:15):
and our high place to Macbeth shall live life's natural course,
lose his breath to time and mortal custom. Yet my
heart throbs to know one thing. Tell me if your
art can tell so much, shall Banquo's offspring ever rain
in this kingdom? Seek to know no more? I will
(10:38):
be satisfied. Deny me this and an eternal curse fall
on you. Let me know why seeks the cauldron? What
noise is this? Here? Yours? Shin show his eyes and
breathe his heart come like shadows, so departs he hates king? There,
(11:01):
your friend, why stan't he at the end, I will
still stop. Thou are two like the spirits of fan
quote down like around us, sermine eyeballs and thy hair.
Another gold bound browse so like the first. A third
(11:25):
is like the former, fills the hags. Why do you
show me this? A fourth burnt eyes will the line
stretched out to the crack of doom. Another yet a
seventh th see no more. And yet the eighth appears,
who holds a glass which shows me many more. And
so my seat carries Scotland's orbs and the scepters of whales.
(11:46):
Horrible sight. Now I seized this true, for the blood
blackened Banquot smiles at me and points at them as
his What is this so? Either? Oh this is so?
But why stands my Beth? That's amazingly, Come sisters, here
(12:09):
we have his sprites and show the best of our lies.
I'll cham be air to give a sound while you
perform your frantic ground, that this great king may kindly
say our duties gave him welcome pains.
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